dimitrinicolas / front-end-stack

Personal, opinionated, front-end development stack, built on PostCSS, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Browsersync

Website starter

Personal website development stack.

Front-end is built on PostCSS, Webpack, Babel, ESLint and Browsersync.

Back-end is build on Node.js and Express.

Installation

Before using this stack you must first install a few dependencies:

• Node.js: nodejs.org
• node modules: npm install

Usage

Run npm run develop.

Config

• FORCE_HTTPS: 0|1 If http:// should redirect to https://.
• PORT: Website port.
• PUBLIC_DIR: Public ressources directory.
• SSL_CERTIFICATE_FILE: Path to the SSL certificate pem file.
• SSL_CERTIFICATE_KEY_FILE: Path to the SSL certificate key pem file.

Installation on a Linux server

First install server-side dependencies:

npm i --production

Starting application using PM2

npm i -g pm2
pm2 start ecosystem.config.js
pm2 startup

Restarting application

pm2 restart izifloor

Create an SSL Certificate using Certbot

Install Certbot

On Debian 8:

echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
apt update
apt install certbot -t jessie-backports

Create the first SSL Certificate

Replace "www.example.com" with your host.

certbot certonly --standalone -d www.example.com --rsa-key-size 4096

Set the certificate to the server configuration

Copy the certificate and private key to the application directory, replace "www.example.com" with your host:

cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/cert.pem cert.pem
cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/privkey.pem key.pem

Or set their path into application environment variables.

Renew the certificate

certbot renew

Auto renew

Every first day of each month at 4 am.

apt-get install cron
crontab -e
0 4 1 * * "$(command -v bash)" -c '/usr/bin/pm2 stop all && /usr/bin/certbot renew && /usr/bin/pm2 restart all'

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.